You wish SINCERELY and pray to Krishna to give you clarity and time.

COUNSELLING:

Hare Krishna Prabhuji ...I just love all your posts & i regularly read each & every word of it ...I always read in your post about the chanting hare krishna ... I really would like to do that ... But i live in join family & i have little kids & old unwell inlaws ... Plus i work as well .... So because of my hectic schedule i hardly get time for myself ...

I m a strong believer of "manavseva is Prabhuseva" so whatever i do for my family i pray to krishana to accept it as my prayer .... & by chance if i get some lonely time i do chant & read bhagwad gita & some daily rituals in temple but its not regular ....

Would you please suggest me if Krishna is still accepting my prayers like this ...Thank you

REPLY:

I understand that most of the people are busy now a days. But, answer my questions:

1. Do they miss any breakfast/ lunch / dinner because they are busy?

2. Do they miss calling and texting the relatives/ lover/ spouse just because they are busy?

3. Do they miss late night serial in TV just because they are busy?

4. Do they miss paying Electricity bill, telephone bill, broadband bill just because they are busy?

5. Do they miss going to toilet or bathroom or comb the hairs or dress neatly just because they are busy?

I do not like to continue the list. We do allm our regular assignments everyday without omission. Then, why do we find it dificult to find time to chant?

Because, all the above points give instant benefits like this:

1. Breakfast/ lunch / dinner satisfies their tongue instantly. They feel the taste and enjoy. So, they do not like to avoid food. 

2. Calling/ texting to others give a boost to our ego because they appreciate us, praise us and call us as hero. So, our ego gets instant satisfaction. But they do not realize that these relations are temporary and ends when we die.

3. Late night serials make them forget their real life/ pains temporarily. So, they watch. But, they do not realize that the pains resume after the end of the TV serial.

4. If they do not pay Electricity/ telephone/ broadband bills, their connections will be cut by the concerned departments and hence they can not enjoy comforts and entertainments. SO, they pay bills.

5. If they do not go to toilet, he will die or can not do any other work. And if they do not bath, no one can come near him and he loses all relations. Even his wife will divorce him if he does not bath in life. So, they bath and use toilet.

So, man performs all actions JUST BECAUSE OF the following reasons:

1. Satisfying senses.
2. Pleasure of appreciation and hence satisfying ego.
3. Forgetting pains.
4. Fear of punishments
5. Fear of disease or death.

But, if he does not chant, what will happen? Do they think of the effects? Only because they do not realize the effects of NOT CHANTING, they do not include CHANTING in their UNAVOIDABLE ASSIGNMENTS. 

What are the effects if they do not chant?

1. They have to face punishments for all the present offences in the next birth. So, a painful next birth.

2. They have to struggle within the womb of mother for 9 months again and again.

3. They have to come out to this world through a small opening with so many struggles.

4. They have to depend on parents for their well being till they reach 16-18. If the parents happen to be bad cultured or bad family, then, the children have to suffer throughout their life.

5. They have to read the same lessons and face many exams again and again in every birth.

6. They have to mingle with the people having cheating mentality and feel for getting cheated.

7. They have to marry again and give birth to children and protect them. If the spouse happen to be torturing nature, then they have to face torture.

8. Eventhough they get plenty of pleasures from spouses, they have to feel for the short life of just 5 minutes for those pleasures. He has to beg to spouse for more and more pleasures.

9. They have to face diseases, and hence body pains and treatments, surgeries, etc.

10. They have to become old in every birth and become dependant to others in old age. DIfficulty in breathing, seeing, eating and walking.

11. He has to face death definitely that is painful equal to the bite of 1000s of scorpions. When we die, we are leaving all the persons and things with which we were associated so far. Our degrees, certificates, awards, pride, spouse, children, wealth, etc, everything is cut from us and we leave empty handed.

Think of these dangerous events if we take birth again and again. Now you will know the seriousness of chanting and stopping the further births. 

Once you realize the seriousness in chanting, you will start to automatically allot time from every day’s 24 hrs. Because, no one is ready to face these pains again in the next birth.

So, my advice is: Live this life and also take efforts to stop next birth. Surrendering to Krishna is the PRIME duty we have in life and CHANTING is the FIRST DUTYwe should have every day.

Some tips:

1. Wake up one hour early from the time followed now.

2. Chant 7-8 rounds of chanting in that one hour every morning.

3. Chant the balance rounds while working, eating, washing clothes, cooking, dressing, etc. (Not while bathing, or using toilet)

Problem solved. I am managing my sadhanas like this only. You too try.

Sorry to say: 

Take me as an example. All of you are not going to give me any money or degree or award or life for me. However, I am spending many hours (4-5 hrs) daily for all of you in this page daily and lose some part of my company turnover because of diversion of concentration and time in this service. I have been bearing this loss of some revenue for 4 years, without stopping this service. My every man hour is equal to 100s of rupees. Still I am losing revenue for serving Lord. How it is possible? Because I wish to serve the people sincerely, Krishna makes all arrangements. He gives me patience to bear the loss and body and mental pains to do the service continuously without break. All are newly typed, not copy-paste matters. I do not know whether the devotees realize the pains involved in this. WHy I am telling my pains? Because, this may encourage you to explore some time for Krishna from yr regular schedules.

Similarly, you too wish SINCERELY and pray to Krishna to give you clarity and time. Evaluate your schedules and extract some time from every duty. Thus you will derive time for chanting.

All the best. Hare Krishna.